The ancien regime and the French Revolution
By: James B. Collins
Publisher: Wadsworth / Thomson Learning
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Belmont, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789 - 1799 -- Causes; France -- Politics and government -- 1774 - 1793; France -- Politics and government -- 1789 - 1799; France -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Description: The historian writing about the French Revolution in 2001 faces an odd situation, because the long struggle of the Classicists and Revisionists has died down, in part because there are so few Classical historians of the French Revolution still active. That truce is puzzling in some ways, because the Revisionists, although they drove the Classicists from the field, never succeeded in creating a synthesis of their own. Now the old quarrel has moved to the wings; the new historiography of the French Revolution, both in the Francophone and Anglophone worlds, has shifted into cultural evolution. [This book] offers a synthesis of the events, but one that integrates material from these different historiographical schools with a careful look at many of the original documents. -Pref
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index
Table of contents: title: Road to revolution; title: Death of the ancien regime, 1787-August 1789; title: Death of the monarchy; title: Terror and triumph, 1792-1794; title: Revolutionary legacies